From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Sep 15 22:47:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA05701 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:47:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from we.mediaone.net (chmls03.mediaone.net [24.128.1.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA05695 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:47:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gummibear@mediaone.net) Received: from ale.we.mediaone.net ([24.130.60.145]) by we.mediaone.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.01) with SMTP id AAA8032 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 01:47:23 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980915224923.0069f384@we.mediaone.net> X-Sender: gummibear@we.mediaone.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:49:23 -0700 To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: gummibear@we.mediaone.net Subject: My trials with FreeBSD (a positive story) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey Folks, Well over this past week I have learned that I really need to start keeping a diary of what I do with my FreeBSD box. I had reinstalled FreeBSD after taking a long hiatus from the OS. I was welcomed pretty nicely back into the OS, because I only had to reinstall it once. :) Going back to my diary thing, I learned that I should have writted down what I had done when I installed it and what packages I had installed. Now I have friends coming up to me asking for help and I don't remember what I did myself to have it install so nicely. Well, first thing I did was change the root shell to tcsh because I can't live without command line editing. Although, I really got used to using a bash shell because my year's worth of experience with Linux. Maybe later I'll change it, but for now I have to figure out how to get my tcsh prompt to display my current directory. I think if I add `pwd` to the prompt line it will fix that, but I'll screw with that later. I added some more ports and stuff to make my system pretty much the way I had my Linux system. I'm not saying that my Linux system was better, just that I had it all tweaked the way I wanted it. Now I have to do the same to my FreeBSD box, which I must say is running really great! I just had a cable modem installed. I pretty much paniced when I had to go out and buy an ethernet card because I didn't know what ethernet card would work with FreeBSD. I chose some generic PCI card that was NE2000 compatible. I didn't feel like spending a wad of cash for those expensive Intel or 3com brands. The card was detected fine, but it was detected as ed1 which did not satisfy me. I felt that the first network card should be on ed0 (NE200 card that is). So after asking for help in the questions list, I finally got my answer to how to fix this problem. I believe that Johnathan Chen was the one that helped me with that. (Thanks John!!) But before I actually received my answer, I had compiled my kernel like 3 times trying to get my ethernet card on ed0 instead of ed1. Well I changed the device line of my ethernet card to "device ed? at pci?" and recompiled and BANG! - it worked. My ethernet card is now on ed0. :) Now I'm satisfied. :) Next I downloaded the port for wide-dhcp which someone (Thanks alot to you too!!) else helped me out with. I installed it can got my cable modem up and running in no time at all. Damn is it fast!!! :) Hmmm...now I want to see if I can set up my machine to be a server of some sort. I'm thinking I want to start servering/trading mp3's or something. Just to have fun with. I get a dynamic IP so I don't know if I can get it registered on ml.org but who knows? :) Anyone ever try this? Well, I guess that's all for now. I have to help out a friend soon install FreeBSD on his system. He pretty much freaked out when he saw the login: after he installed. Then he tried reinstalling. Don't know why though. I think I shall show him the way. :) Thanks for listening. Joey Bear Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message